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    3 months ago

    I am not familiar with China’s academic climate, but I find it difficult to imagine it’s worse than situation here.

    But even if it was, they produce twice as many PhDs; it would have to be really, really bad to be less effective overall.

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        3 months ago

        Research papers aren’t a per-capita thing, whether they have 4x as many people or 400x as many people, scientific advancement is scientific advancement.